Rededicate 2026: Catholic Confession Urged & Pope and President are Declared “One Nation Under God”

Jonathan Roumie, the American Catholic actor known for his role as Jesus in The Chosen and for promoting the Catholic prayer app Hallow, spoke during the Rededicate 2026 celebration in Washington, D.C., an event calling for America to embrace revival and return to God. During his speech, Roumie told the audience—and those watching by livestream across the nation and around the world—that perhaps it is time for people to return to confession. According to Catholic theology, confession is the practice of confessing sins to a human priest in order to receive absolution, or forgiveness, from God through the ministry of the church.

Roumie also spoke passionately about the United States being “one nation under God.” He referred to how both “his president and his pope” were shot in the same year, yet said he had no fear because America is “one nation under God.” Nonetheless, Roumie’s statement represents a major historical and constitutional contradiction because America’s founding principles were historically rooted in the separation of church and state, yet the language he used appeared to unite national identity, U.S. political leadership, and the authority of the Catholic Church under one spiritual banner.

When Jonathan Roumie spoke of “his president and his pope” in the same breath while emphasizing that America is “one nation under God,” it placed the Vatican and the American presidency side by side as moral partners in shaping the nation’s spiritual direction. From a prophetic perspective, this does not represent true revival or a return to God, but rather a movement toward Rome and the gradual formation of the image of the beast foretold in Revelation 13.

What was displayed at Rededicate 2026 was not a revival grounded solely upon the Scriptures but a visible mixing of American civil power with Roman Catholic spiritual influence. Calls for confession to priests, references to the president and the pope, and the promotion of national unity under a shared religious banner revealed how Catholicism was openly placed at the center of America’s spiritual renewal narrative.

Bible prophecy warns that in the last days the United States would gradually move away from its Protestant and constitutional foundations and form an alliance with Rome in order to influence the conscience of the nation and of the world. These developments are not insignificant cultural moments but signs that the principles of church and state separation are steadily eroding as America moves closer to the prophetic image of the beast.